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    Pungent Verbs: Interviews with Genre Writers at the End of the Twentieth Century
    Pungent Verbs: Interviews with Genre Writers at the End of the Twentieth Century
    Pungent Verbs: Interviews with Genre Writers at the End of the Twentieth Century
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    Pungent Verbs: Interviews with Genre Writers at the End of the Twentieth Century

    By Tom Lockington

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    Twelve interviews with writers of science fiction, fantasy and horror, conducted in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Interviewees include Ramsey Campbell, John Clute, Dennis Etchison and Peter Straub. Plus one long article on Huraki Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTom Lockington
    Release dateJun 19, 2015
    ISBN9781310794223
    Pungent Verbs: Interviews with Genre Writers at the End of the Twentieth Century
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    Tom Lockington

    Tom Lockington is a long-established and hardly secret pseudonym for the UK-based author David Mathew. I created Tom Lockington in the 1990s, mainly to write journalism.

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